{"id":2658,"date":"2010-08-07T12:25:08","date_gmt":"2010-08-07T16:25:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2010\/08\/proposed-coal-plants.html"},"modified":"2010-08-07T12:25:08","modified_gmt":"2010-08-07T16:25:08","slug":"proposed-coal-plants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2010\/08\/proposed-coal-plants.html","title":{"rendered":"Proposed Coal Plants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ngm.nationalgeographic.com\/2010\/07\/power-grid\/achenbach-text\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right;border:none;\"   src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4076\/4868487183_bbcf3a713e_o.png\"><\/a><br \/>\nIn the July 2010 National Geographic,<br \/>\nJoel Achenbach writes about<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/ngm.nationalgeographic.com\/2010\/07\/power-grid\/achenbach-text\"><br \/>\nThe 21st Century Grid<\/a>.<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s mostly about how we need a smart grid and additional power lines<br \/>\nto redistribute power better,<br \/>\nbut it does get into proposed power plants to generate new power.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nAlthough everyone acknowledges the need for a better, smarter, cleaner grid, the paramount goal of the utility industry continues to be cheap electricity. In the U.S. about half of it comes from burning coal. Coal-powered generators produce a third of the mercury emissions in America, a third of our smog, two-thirds of our sulfur dioxide, and nearly a third of our planet-warming carbon dioxide\u2014around 2.5 billion metric tons a year, by the most recent estimate.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Then it talks about how it&#8217;s hard to get stodgy electric utilities to<br \/>\ninvest in anything else.  However, there is at least one way:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nA California law requires utilities to generate at least 20 percent of their electricity from renewable sources as of this year.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>OK, so what new energy plant are proposed for Georgia?<br \/>\nThe<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/ngm.nationalgeographic.com\/2010\/07\/power-grid\/grid-interactive\"><br \/>\nonline interactive map<\/a><br \/>\nlets you select different energy types.<br \/>\nThe map above shows four proposed new coal plants in Georgia,<br \/>\nsurrounding south Georgia (plus something nonrenewable in Florida near Tampa).<br \/>\nI recognize the one in far southwest Georgia as the one proposed for Early County<br \/>\nand fortunately still tied up in litigation.<br \/>\nAll four are in addition to the existing Plant Scherer at Juliett, GA,<br \/>\nnear Macon, the dirtiest coal plant in the country, and the one that generates<br \/>\n2\/3 of our power for south Georgia (as well as selling a lot of power to Florida).<br \/>\nAdding still more dirty coal plants does not look like progress.<\/p>\n<p>\nContinued in next blog entry.<\/p>\n<p>\n-jsq<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the July 2010 National Geographic, Joel Achenbach writes about The 21st Century Grid. It&#8217;s mostly about how we need a smart grid and additional power lines to redistribute power better, but it does get into proposed power plants to generate new power. Although everyone acknowledges the need for a better, smarter, cleaner grid, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[216,11,23],"tags":[8738,8753,8701,548,5538,8702,12,5502,8711,5540,8713,8714,846,5539],"class_list":["post-2658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coal","category-lake","category-renewable-energy","tag-biomass","tag-coal","tag-georgia","tag-john-s-quarterman","tag-july-2010","tag-lake","tag-lowndes-area-knowledge-exchange","tag-national-geographic","tag-planning","tag-proposed-power-plants","tag-renewable-energy","tag-solar","tag-southeast","tag-the-21st-century-grid"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2658","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2658"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2658\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}